Schneier on Security

This book makes an incisive and technically informed contribution to a rapidly growing body of work on AI and politics. Its central chapters survey the tangible ways AI will alter democratic practices, including political campaigning, lawmaking, administration, and legal judgment. The book is framed by the authors’ conception of democracy as “an information system that translates individual preferences into group policy decisions” (p.27), a system that can be optimized through effective use of AI. This conception has its merits, but it underplays democracy as a normative order structured by constitutional limits, institutional friction, public reasoning, and commitments to political equality—and leads the authors, in places, to understate AI’s potential impact on some of its most important dimensions…